Farewell to thee! but not farewellTo all my fondest thoughts of thee:
God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and LOVE; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties - if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condesce...
If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
My nature was not originally calm,' said I. 'I have learned to appear so by dint of hard lessons and many repeated efforts.
No, but still it is very unpleasant to live with such unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures. You cannot love them; and if you could, your love would be utterly thrown away: they could neither retu...
No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of them as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done,...
Those whose actions are forever before our eyes, whose words are ever in our ears, will naturally lead us, albeit against our will, slowly, gradually, imperceptibly, perhaps, to act and speak as they...
Well, let them seize on all they can;— One treasure still is mine,—A heart that loves to think on thee, And feels the worth of thine.
. . you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!
I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a ma...
I would not send a poor girl into the world, unarmed against her foes, and ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance...
I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.
The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live....
This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathize with my distresses, but then, it will not laugh at them, a...
If I can gain the public ear at all, I would rather whisper a few wholesome truths therein than much soft nonsense
Arthur,’ continued I, relaxing my hold of his arm, ‘you don’t love me half as much as I do you; and yet, if you loved me far less than you do, I would not complain, provided you loved your Maker more....
But this gives no proper idea of my feelings at all; and no one that has not lived such a retired stationary life as mine, can possibly imagine what they were: hardly even if he has known what it is t...
God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him.
I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, firs...
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